On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture. — Mike Johanns Copy Share Image
...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture. — Moby Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork… — Tracie McMillan Copy Share Image
We need to do a better job of supporting diversity and inclusion within all sectors of our economy, including agriculture. — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In their pursuit of growth and diversification, African economies should consider transforming the discourse from a focus on industrialisation to a broader… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
“Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
More and more agricultural land is being used for non-agricultural purposes. Whether it's any industry, express highway, or expansion of any city,… — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests,… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
You can't participate in agriculture or redesign of aircraft for making them safer if you know nothing about it. So, whenever a… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In agriculture, whatever you plan and execute takes 2-3 years to have an impact. — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off? — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers. — Jerry Moran Copy Share Image
The possibilities of agriculture on the continent of Africa are immense. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image